Paul Goodman (1911-1972) was famous during the Sixties as a social critic in many different disciplines, including sociology, psychology, education, etc. He felt that his true calling was as an artist, and longed for public recognition for his plays, poems and fiction. After his passing, it became apparent that he was a great artist, twenty or thirty years ahead of his time. First softcover edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Edges greyed with dust marks. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0876853556. ISBN/EAN: 9780876853559. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 14798. N° de ref. de la librería 14798

These twenty-four stories some traditional and realistic, others experimental and "cubist" were written when Goodman was in his late twenties, a student at the University of Chicago living the life of a romantic artist-outsider. They reveal a rebel at odds with American institutions yet also homesick for his native New York, the pleasures of family, and the comforts of a strong moral order. When the title story was published in the New Directions annual, Klaus Mann commented that "the tone of this young American voice reminds me of certain venerable accents long-known and ever-loved the accents of Goethe's mellow wisdom," which is the wisdom of a youth capable of seeing himself from an adult's perspective.

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